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By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Supreme Court has ruled that the government is not liable for the 2011 Fukushima nuclear…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa could face criminal charges and is already…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Hundreds of Malaysian lawyers have staged a protest to condemn the anti-graft agency’s probe of a senior judge who…

By OMER FAROOQ and ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — At least one person has been killed as angry young people in parts of India…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A blanket of hot air stretching from the Mediterranean to the North Sea is bringing much of Western…

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand is lifting a pre-arrival registration requirement for foreign visitors that was seen as onerous and a drag on the recovery…

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese low-cost carrier Zipair is changing the design on its tail from the letter “Z,” which resembles the symbol on Russian…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Al Jazeera news network has published an image of the bullet that it says killed its veteran reporter Shireen Abu Akleh. She…

By PAOLO SANTALUCIA Associated Press BORETTO, Italy (AP) — Water is so low in large stretches of Italy’s largest river that local residents…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and STAN CHOE AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks ended another bumpy day mostly higher on Wall Street but still wound…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — World Trade Organization members have reached a string of deals and commitments aimed to limit…

By JAY REEVES and KIM CHANDLER Associated Press VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. (AP) — The 70-year-old visitor had previously attended some services at St.…

By DAVID RISING and KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Beijing launched a new-generation aircraft carrier Friday, the first such ship to…

By MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press RED LODGE, Mont. (AP) — As punishing floods tore through Yellowstone National Park and…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A Russian-owned superyacht seized by the United States has arrived in Honolulu Harbor flying an…

By ALAN SUDERMAN and BEN FOX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Teachers unable to get paychecks. Tax and customs systems paralyzed. Health…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s new Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he will take advice on whether to…

PANAMA CITY (AP) — A Panamanian judge has acquited 39 people charged in the Panama Papers case, including the key figures,  Jurgen Mossack and…

By KYLE HIGHTOWER AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — The Golden State Warriors are NBA champions once again, topping the Boston Celtics 103-90 on…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron has won former President Donald’s Trump’s…

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — The chairman of a special state House committee taking testimony on the Uvalde school shooting says it’s uncertain…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli forces have shot dead three Palestinians and wounded at least eight others during a military operation in the occupied…

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A former North Texas police officer has been indicted on a murder count in the fatal shooting of a suspect after a…

By ZEKE MILLER and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In an abrupt change of course, the White House is now declining to comment on…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed a bill that will give around-the-clock security protection to the families of Supreme Court…

By RONALD BLUM AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The 16 cities of the first World Cup spread across three nations were revealed, and FIFA President…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Airlines are canceling more than 1,500 flights across the U.S. in one of the worst days yet in the summer travel…

CHICAGO (AP) — A white former Chicago police officer captured on video struggling with a Black woman who was walking her dog in along a Lake…

By WILSON RING Associated Press BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Vermont transportation officials say the long-awaited return of passenger rail service to…

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 42-year-old Nebraska man has pleaded guilty to making several threats against an election official in Colorado. Federal…

By MARINA VILLENEUVE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The final Democratic debate in the primary campaign for New York governor is over. The…

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi high school booster group has launched what a school safety group calls a “highly inappropriate”…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A California man accused of breaking into thousands of Apple iCloud accounts and stealing private photos and videos of nude…

PARIS (AP) — French senators demanded Thursday that the state recognize responsibility and identify guilty parties behind the chaos that marred the…

BUENOS AIRES (AP) — Israel is praising Argentina for holding a Venezuelan plane that included Iranian crew, saying the flight shows Tehran is…

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A bird flu outbreak in the U.S. that led to the deaths of more than 40 million chickens and…

By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Ripley’s Believe It or Not! on Thursday denied claims that Kim Kardashian’s wearing…

LAREDO, Texas (AP) — A recount is underway in a Texas primary race between Democratic U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar and progressive challenger Jessica…

OROFINO, Idaho (AP) — Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Thursday announced $9 million for 40 projects in Idaho and seven other Western states for…

THIBODAUX, La. (AP) — A Louisiana contractor has been arrested on video voyeurism charges after a camera was found in a bathroom vent at a home…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Gov. Brian Kemp is endorsing Mike Collins in Georgia’s 10th Congressional District runoff. Kemp is…

By JAY REEVES Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The families of two military veterans from Alabama who are missing in Ukraine have joined…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Abortion providers in some places where the procedure could be banned if the U.S.…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky’s Supreme Court has issued a sharply divided ruling against the…

By BEN FOX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Employees accused of misconduct at the Department of Homeland Security could face more stringent…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday the American people are “really, really down” after a…

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Officials have voted to suspend the business permit of a Tennessee nightclub near the scene of a mass shooting where…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden signed legislation Thursday meant to make shipping goods across oceans…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, ERIC TUCKER and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Capitol insurrection…

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota judge has ruled there’s no basis to keep sealed documents related to a child pornography investigation of…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A father has been acquitted of paying off a Georgetown University tennis coach to get his…

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Incarcerated lawyer Michael Avenatti has pleaded guilty to four counts of wire fraud and a…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Travelers beware: The Netherlands’ busiest airport is reining in flight departures over its busy summer period.…

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A former Florida congresswoman convicted of a federal tax charge in a charity fraud case wants to return to the U.S.…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Nineteen-year-old newcomer Lola Tung stars in the Amazon series “The Summer I Turned…

By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Fire crews battling a pair of wildfires in northern Arizona were expecting some growth…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — An aardvark cub born at the San Diego Zoo is said to be doing well and developing quickly. The San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — What Karla Arango says started as a dorm-room sexual assault got even worse as word…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire attorney general’s office has released preliminary proposals for…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer With the polar bear species in a fight for survival because of disappearing Arctic sea ice, a new distinct group…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — After a glittering career stuffed with No. 1 hits — not to mention a two-year pandemic…

By EMILY ROSE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli newspaper says that a police investigation has found that officers engaged in misconduct…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE (AP) — A request by Louisiana legislative leaders to extend the deadline of completing a new…

MIAMI (AP) — Florida’s annual prize-winning hunt for invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades is slated to begin Aug. 5. The event…

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s police superintendent is recommending the firing of an officer accused of dragging a Black woman from a car by her hair…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The threat of war with neighboring Congo is simmering under the tidy surface of Rwanda’s…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has approved a sweeping expansion of health care and disability benefits for…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021,…

GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s central bank has announced a one-half of a percentage point increase to a key interest rate Thursday, the first…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota senators are staying silent on how they will vote as they weigh whether to…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A possible plebiscite on Puerto Rico’s political future is looming, and one of the…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The National Rifle Association says its longtime lobbyist in Florida, Marion Hammer, will retire but remain an adviser to…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina prosecutor has decided against filing charges against officers who shot and killed a knife-wielding man. His…

CLEVELAND, Tenn. (AP) — Officials say a Tennessee sheriff’s deputy has fatally shot a man when “confronted with a threat.” News outlets…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A California doctor who is a leading figure in the anti-vaccine movement has been sentenced to 60 days in…

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The U.N. representative in Afghanistan says her heart is breaking because of the harsh edicts that…

By EMILY ROSE Associate Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has canceled youth Holocaust-education trips to Poland this summer. Foreign Minister Yair…

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Layla Salazar adored Koala bears and loved the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys and dancing to TikTok videos. Her family said she…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer In an unusual move for what’s been an unusual takeover bid for Twitter by the world’s richest man, Tesla…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Progressive prosecutors around the U.S. are declaring they won’t enforce some of the…

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — European Council President Charles Michel is visiting North Macedonia. He…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch intelligence agency says it prevented a Russian spy using a false Brazilian…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Talks are going down to the wire as the World Trade Organization is set to wrap up its first…

MILAN (AP) — Italian luxury sportscar maker Ferrari on Thursday outlined an electrification strategy that calls for 40% full-electric vehicles and…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish officials say the Turkish and Greek defense ministers have met on the sidelines of a NATO meeting amid renewed…